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OSCE monitors contact line between Azerbaijani, Armenian armies

According to the mandate of OSCE Chairman-in-Office Personal Representative, the monitoring was held on the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces near the Yusifjanli village in the Agdam region of Azerbaijan on Oct. 26., Teymur Abdullayev, deputy chief of the press service of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry,told Trend.

The monitoring was held without incidents.

The monitoring was held on the Azerbaijani side by OSCE Chairman-in-Office Personal Representative field assistants Imre Palatinus, William Pryor and Christo Christov.

The monitoring was held on the opposite side, which the international community recognizes as Azerbaijani territory, by OSCE Chairman-in-Office Personal Representative Andrzej Kasprzyk's field assistants Antal Herdich and Jaslan Nurtazin.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.

Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. - are currently holding the peace negotiations.

Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.